TV Show about Parental Alienation

The world of divorce is scary for any child. But when a divorce becomes
especially toxic, children can become the target of an unrelenting crusade
by one parent to destroy the child's relationship with the other. Experts
call it parental alienation.
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Days after buying another woman Valentine's Day flowers, a Sydney father came home to find a trail of blood leading him to the bodies of his two young children lying next to their mother, a court has been told.

Australian Associated Press
Aug 24 2009

The woman had given the couple's three-year-old daughter and
four-year-old son rat poison and an unidentified pink liquid before
smothering them and killing them, court papers said.

She then tried to take her own life, the NSW Supreme Court was told.

Doctors agree the mother, from Canley Heights in Sydney's west, was
suffering from "major depression" when she poisoned her children on
February 19 last year.

She has pleaded not guilty to the two murders by reason of mental
illness.

As her judge-alone trial began, the mother's lawyer told Justice
Clifton Hoeben his client didn't think life was worth living after
learning about her husband's affair.
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Nearly one in 10 girls and one in 20 boys say they have been raped or
experienced some other form of abusive violence on a date, according to
a study released Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Psychological
Association.
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More and more teens are becoming depressed. The numbers of young people
suffering from depression in the last 10 years has risen worryingly, an
expert says.

BBC, UK, August 3, 2004

Government statistics suggest one in eight adolescents now has depression.

Unless doctors recognise the problem, more could slip through the net,
says Professor Tim Kendall of the National Collaborating Centre for Mental
Health.

Guidelines on treating childhood depression will be published next year.
Professor Kendall says a lot more needs to be done to treat the illness.
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Woman convicted of killing 3 kids after custody
battle

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, USA, August 26, 2008

HELSINKI, Finland - A court in Finland has convicted a woman of murdering
her three young children and has given her a life sentence.

The Espoo District Court says Thai-born Yu-Hsiu Fu was found guilty of
strangling her 8-year-old twin daughters and 1-year-old son in her home.

She tried to kill herself afterward.

The verdict on Tuesday says the 41-year-old woman was found to be of
sound mind at the time of the murders.

Court papers show the murders were preceded by a bitter custody battle
with her Finnish husband who was living separately from her at the time
of the murders.

A life sentence in Finland mean convicts usually serve at least 11 years
in prison.

Female Sexual Predator - Girl 17

Ottawa girl found guilty on 30 of 33 charges in teen
pimping case

The Canadian Press, January 29, 2014

OTTAWA - An Ottawa teen who befriended girls on
Facebook and other social media, then forced them to
work as escorts, has been found guilty of 30 of 33
charges against her.

The 17-year-old — identified as the ringleader of
the group — was found guilty Wednesday on counts
including human trafficking, forcible confinement,
assault, robbery, sexual assault, child luring and
distributing child pornography.

Justice Diane Lahaie ruled the testimony of the
main victims in the case was both reliable and clear
and found the girl guilty of the majority of the
charges she faced.

Lahaie found the girl orchestrated a web of
clients and lured the victims — aged 13 to 17 —
intending to exploit them, and held them against
their will.

The victims were made to pose for pornographic
images that were sent to dozens of men, and three of
them were forced to have sexual encounters with men
while the girl kept the money.

The Crown said it will be seeking an adult
sentence for the girl.

Two other teens accused in the case pleaded
guilty to several charges in September in a surprise
about-face after having pleaded not guilty earlier
last year.

The three girls, whose identities are protected
under a publication ban, were arrested in June 2012
in the Ottawa area.

Det. Kelly Lyle said she's pleased with the
result.

"All the evidence came out great and the victims,
as we keep stressing, they were the reason that we
did so well," Lyle said, adding she's proud of the
girls' strength in coming forward and testifying.